Working in the future plans section of the US Central Command J6 - joint staff communications - during 2003-2004, US Air Force Major Robert Borja was involved with "planning systems related to command, control, communications and computers for...

With the Iraqi National Joint Operations Center (NJOC) from June 2005 through February 2006, Major Paul Struck served as the support operations officer and, in this capacity, worked to "bring the Iraqi police and military at the national level to...

With the Army's Criminal Investigation Division as a shift operations officer when the 9/11 attacks occurred, Major J.D. Branch became part of the FBI's joint operations center for Pentagon recovery that was headquartered at the Pentagon itself and...

With the 720th Military Police Battalion during its June 2003 to March 2004 deployment to Tikrit, Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Rangel served as the executive officer. For his second tour, from June 2004 to February 2005, Rangel was executive...

With the 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, Major Chris Wynder served as deputy division provost marshal from May 2003 to February 2004. "I was the go-to guy in terms of managing what the section did on a daily basis," he said. Besides...

With Combined Joint Task Force 76 in Bagram, Afghanistan, from November 2004 through May 2005, Major Craig Whitten served as chief of law enforcement for the civil affairs operations section of the Combined Joint Staff. As the single point of...

With 5th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005, Major David Chiarenza initially served as a company commander and then moved to become a brigade battle captain and, as needed, brigade planner and current operations...

With 2nd Brigade of the 75th Division (Training Support) when the call came in December 2004 to deploy the following month to Iraq to work on a military transition team (MiTT) for a year, Major Paul Esmahan was assigned as a logistics MiTT chief...

While working as the Phoenix, Arizona area commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Los Angeles District, Major James DeLapp deployed to Iraq and served from May to November 2004 as the operations officer for the Corps' Camp Victory...

While stationed at Fort Stewart where she was a company commander with the 3rd Forward Support Battalion, Major Racquel Gallman, a finance officer, was selected to fill an individual augmentee position as the CJ8 - or resource manager - for...

While recovering back in the US from five gunshot wounds incurred during an April 2003 firefight in Afghanistan, Major Gregory Trahan had to relinquish command of his company (which was still in theater) and was planning, upon returning to duty, to...

While attending training for a new civilian job, Staff Sergeant Douglas Hartwell, an Army Reservist with the 129th Transportation Company, was activated in January 2003. Within days, he began training at Fort Riley and three months later, deployed...

When word came down in November 2004 that the 138th Signal Battalion's Alpha Company - part of the 38th Infantry Division, Indiana National Guard - was going to be sent to Iraq for a 2005-2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom,...

When the 98th Division (Institutional Training) deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005, Major General James R. Helmly was the chief of Army Reserve and commanding general of United States Army Reserve Command. In this interview, focusing on the 98th's...

When Lieutenant Colonel David Seigel was first alerted for deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was serving as the executive officer (XO) of 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He...

When 16 Air Assault Brigade (UK) was alerted for deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major John Clark was serving as a squadron commander in 23 Engineer Regiment (UK), a subordinate unit that was also tapped to...

USMC Maj Timothy Teed serves in the Marine Corps Active Reserve (AR) program and in that capacity helped to stand up the first designated mortuary affairs unit of the Marine Corps. In this November 2010 interview, Maj Teed discusses what went into...

USMC Maj Matt Hakola served as a logistics analyst at Al Taqaddum (TQ) during 2005 and 2006, operations officer (OPSO) at TQ during 2007 and 2008, and as company commander at TQ during 2009, all in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this...

US Navy CDR Richard Halloran served as a contracting officer tasked with overseeing contracts to build public health centers in Baghdad, Iraq during 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and on an oil terminal in the Arabian Gulf during...